Matching Names
Found 1 matching names:Q
| Name | ☼ | European | Old Spelling | |||
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| Name | ☼ | European | Old Spelling | |||
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| ▸ | Qunerna | W | K'unerna | |||
| one whom one finds sweet/attractive. From the word Quneq (sweet/beautiful) and a short form of (ine)qunaaq. Qunaaq from Western Greenland and the Eastern Greenlandic name Qunerseeq carries the meaning. Likewise Quneqitooq which means the very sweet or beautiful one was a name for a woman from Uummannaq who had moved to north of Upernavik in the 1880s. Other names with the same meaning is the Western Greenlandic girls name Quniganna and the Southern Greenlandic girls name Quneq. The word quniitsoq with the opposite meaning: the ugly/untidy one can be found in the dictionary, the Eastern Greenlandic girls and boys hypocoristic name Quninngi (the not attractive/sweet one) is derived from this stem. | ||||||